BREATHÜRNER

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9 New Poems by Paul Celan

Translated by Pierre Yawnris

Chicago Review September 2010

the iron, mottled with partridge,

Reads in your handkerchief,

Faster than

Fast.

The bluets of her glances grow through her,

Lotus and gala

In onionskin:

You

Eyeglass-fingered

Farness

the truss particle

Deep in the glue

Ladle

At lance loom

In the time piece holly-shock:

Listen your wayside in

With your mouthwash.

in the depths, you say you

stay, stonefaced against

the One, darkhush behind

the Figure’s starefound

your Body, bound behind

stone,sank to

the depths of the Seine

sunk, in it’s own

sad Command: dig

down/in the Open

eyes that recognize your

signstill--------->seeing, you now

sinkingvine to one

Word:

invisiblenowareyou

walking among every

metaphor of

shit is

the Whimper

of Men, in

squalor

i gone, in the heartseas it’s own

glowing, running out

the Heart you see, we carry a mirrored

image, marrows in

an image:

the boneswells.

Into the bottomwell

burns on the brow

burrowing what twists

in this hushcharge—[?]

The ram, which songs itself out

of this World, that stones you

further away, from this

world dead or,

gone

masquerade through tho, you

only halfspoke this

templetrembles from

the Thought:

“you, I let you

wait”—here

weightsyou & you

were not

yet übersung still

underdone

in the ündertone, which

begins:

hushumperhush

It will be something, languid

the bodylatrines that

fills you, towards

a funk, lift

me to your

mouth

to chew this

Hand too, only

pulls to Thy

memories

pool each drop

of Youth

when the Sun

went down

each Summer

falls

to circlesyou

in thinskin

silentlythrough

to You

the nothing of this, was

a noting, that we Rinse

our nightskin

in the End, days

we believe it’s all

to endstill

in the endthrough

the sliding of our

skin in sheets

within the Rub

of her Refuge

shadeweighting

the sharp satiating

baked

in the yawlbloom

digging our

graves

too

with the voice of the field

quitesyou

to sludge,

to clump

to biting yourself

through

the shirt into

the Skin, a morsel

you slide into

your Mouth

in the middle

of the Night

as the snō

outside

parts your life

ruined at

last in the

upwind

chills the always

hungbones

flattening the areas

that shrieked

in skin, over

grooved

ice grows

the World

in a dark

shade

the way

you

ring around

the Rosie

staples you in

the scourhour

sours

How I Spent my Weekend [Spent, Sweaty & Romantic in Unforgiving Light]

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ELEVATOR

Conversation, stagnates

removal. Clipping

of toenails. Keeping

an Eye on appearance, to

avoid personal pit

falls-------------->[fade], like being together,

wet laundry, towel,

towers us down, weight

wait: every disclosure is

crude, bitetongue to,

to implode------------>straight

behind the Face, which way

was the looks meaner to enfold

the Hide, it Hurts to Hunk,

is nothing

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Conversation, with broad

travels. Call me eyeing

you yeah from the side

of the sink, growing Big calluses

carefully, within the Crowd

I ascend tall & falling

Straight, down like hard

pencils, skinned across—

The legs of Night, swing

down from Eyes no bigger

than Mine, no bigger

than the Blanket that could

fit us in this Kiss, burnt

across the Beak, steak

glistens in your teeth, hair

grows for so much more

like “Do not Forget Me.”

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Conversation, with the tall

ass, faces

destruction: all of it,

drawn, to

dung, flung deeper, into Focus,

looks, mighty

tasty often-times Pissing in an

Alley, shameless

against the billowing morning

smokes, after

the blowhard Kisses, launched

across, cheeks

chubby, like the beerpiss

made, to do

personal arrest

Strove, into the Violent Morning

upon, The Street pounding the Form

of Last Night’s slim regrets daunt in

their Haunt like, none other. The Other

value, vaults in the Eyes swipe

the Early Bird shitcrust & the Life

spent in Thrift, pummels upon

The Slō Creep, at the Edge of salute: yes,

it was this I regret schlips from lips

like just gutter, just a trimmed whimper

of a ragtag invasion of personal Space

& awakes the Woman, in bed, at the

tailend of your dress rehearsal, together

past, or prior past working experience above

the Waste, of warped confidence suffused

with a pussyinflation, unparalleled &

brownbagged half The City, is one way

to reach toward Chicago, dreaming of

Youth a month out & her Wet, one gulp

too many to discharge, in lieu of how my, how

my Hardness, hardens, in that’s too hard

& release the deathgrip, clutched

the Brick, the Grimace & mung moan more

poor powdered penance now all

dickdust

guidelines

Call me William inside,

will say nothing about

exercise, the eyes all

on You I, masturbate

loudly, in

abundance.

Hide from

my roommate.

Had to quit my

Job. Pants spotted

with queasy

revelations. I roar

to myself in Bed because

Roars turn me

on. A Lion, all day

in bed & good

god, it's a little

big, that tan

piece of

shit, sure think

I'll be

at Friday's

dance in your

pants, panting

will be

the surprise, pelt

& all that

spunk, I meant

junk. Nears the Sun

shines, my affections

to cockling depths

dear already came

here, said

nothing

about exercise

SKIP

Home is where the empty Room hunks. Grew up whistling

the empty hallway, skin pounds, an echo

in a cluster of Ghosts, or was that my Voice—[?]

bright, sunken-cheeked & living in the Bottom line, faulted

down the Walk, pray to holding

up this Persona. Father had premonitions “look at

this Body now” against the smear of perversions

us filling up on perversions until you couldn’t nobody’s

address to talk to talk to you. I open my Eyes & then

I’m lost & all those poor mistakes you kept

writin. In this Home, we remain

hidden, telling Jokes in our own Ears, giggling with eyes

that close & never open

Slō, Thumper thrō

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Somehow in secret, breathing is easier as no one is Guilty of Signs of Hesitation. So somuchso for Human preventions so. Next will come my attempt to enclose you, to close you in thrō, to the thumper------------>thrō.

Somehow thumper------------>is next in Guilty Hesitation. To thrō Signs & mymymy so in close so. Preventions to enclose no somuchso breathing one of thrō. The attempt is Human so, for secret, the “as” is to come of, you will describe our separation aches to eat of Absence

Is You, “as” our come so next so separation so. Thrō Human, somuchso secret, Guilty is Signs to the one in the will to so: attempt thumper----------->is Preventions in aches of thrō. Hesitation. Enclose mymymy to no breathing so. & eat of, close to somehow Absence of, gross degrees of “I meant to Project”

Somuchso in so. In, somehow the thumper----------->Signs come to Enclose so: will of thrō to breathing “as” the is of You, Guilty of so. Absence, next project close secret of: eat & degrees I Hesitation, one---------àis to Preventions to the mymymy thrō. So is so meant to attempt separation noso the aches our gross so Human so, the Body—[if shits]—before it’s Sacrifice

Gross the mymymy thrō. Enclose, to project to so. thumper----------->attempt so of in: The One so. Next separation somehow will, preventions of the “as” to breathing Hesitation. Of our, of Signs & to the You, the somuchso to Human. Guilty secret, meant to degrees, so is come Absence, of in so: shit—before noso is -----------àis I aches eat Body if close thrō a fever to increase my fucking Fever

Enclose, Human. Come noso Fever thrō & so of Body attempt my, mymymy prevention aches will, a next one to increase to Absence, of the if, to is “as” so. In thrō. Eat the Guilty to somehow project so [s]our. To close of I, breathing the so to: is Gross so, to secret of in: You. Fever shit. Before separation Signs, degrees, of the meant The thumper----------->so hesitation------------->is somuchso habits how the assume so

Human, how shit—[ily]. Noso & the next if, of Body I’m in: somehow to mymymy increase to: so habits so, One so assumes so close comes the thrō. “as” to You. My preventions of hesitation so------------->is of degrees, aches the Guilty somuchso Fever can Enclose I, so will. Gross is to is Signs: thrō Absence, of attempt in Fever project to the so, sour thumper------------->so Eat breathing the secret to mean: before separation, continued to the exit to hear the bottomless person hung out/out

“The I’m aches wilt, shit—[ily].” Hesitation, gross to breathing the Fever. One enclose continued, the person somuchso to: if means: The Guilty out/ out assumes Fever. To sour project increase to Body is secret of: hear is My degrees, of the Absence, close so how in to so The Thrō to so mymymy bottomless to noso “as” so, before The thumper--------------->so You. Signs: in Eat of can so somehow to the next hung attempt of Human & so-------------->is preventions so, thrō. So separation, so comes habit: exit I, to subject sacrifice nervous said “I apprehend exhaustion.”

Human exhaustion. “Before Fever.” Mymymy the Signs: Eat Hesitation, Fever so, so---------------->is the bodywilt, gross separation of habit: hung to close “as” enclose hear so said: the thrō is & somuchso. The Absence, to the out/thumper------------------>so how aches I, out the One, can to somehow the so “I secret shit—[ily].” Of guilty—[ily], assumes in the Bottomless comes to increase the sour attempt of so, to so, means so: degrees. You breathing so nervous to apprehend so mymymy of the subject if to I’m to Thrō to: The sacrifice projects person to next preventions exit so is the continued noso continued: composed Hands composed in this Act: I’m not fucking helpless

So, the so thumper--------------------->so to can Fever/out.” Gross, of the somuchso. Mymymy assumes I, shit—[ily].” Hands The secret, Hands “I somehow nervous this hung so----------------->is the One to bottomless noso the thrō composed so, close to the Human is out I’m to The Thrō: the exit, so how to Act: continued you to in mymymy so if in so is Signs: fucking to breathing to so the Hesitation so. Subject separation the aches a degree here. I composed. “Before exhaustion Eats” & next, bodywilt in, I’m Exhaustion in. To enclose projects to increase continued so: habit: sour/our helpless of the sacrifice so person so apprehend so of means to the guilty—[ily] so: attempt preventions to be said: Fever “as” the coming Absence, will be the sound of my unbroken breathingcollapse

Mymymy continues to the degree so-------------------->next is the so Subject increases the Fever of preventions of how to be the hung to, the “my” in mymymy so, a Hand out assumes to apprehend so: so close so of The Signs: composed to Hesitation projects to The Thrō: to separation to shit—[ily]. Exhaustion means noso this exhaustion aches to the so guilty—[ily] composed. To can Hands the fucking sour/our secret, is a person so thrō the somuchso in. “I continued in Absence” to so “as” & so to Gross, so: the so Fever/out. “I’m exit” nervous will to Human is bodywilt so “Before the One” I’m breathing the attempt of the Act to be: habit: unbroken to bottomless the so of so Eats the thumper --------------------->so helpless I, if coming a sacrifice to sound breathingcollapse here. I somehow in the end said: enclose that Figure in light at the stroke of each Hour

So, so unbroken is the nervous exit that I composed to a person to be: Act Hands “I’m to the bodywilt how so helpless of stroke so.” Can Exhaustion Fever so—[?] Secret, in the so continued One so. The Eats of exhaustion “I to thumper ------------------------>”so Signs so: to end to the fucking to “my” of the mymymy in the mymymy Hesitation, breathing the shit—[ily] so coming said so: to separation to the Fever/out. So Figure so: & preventions so close “Before if assumes the increases here.” The of so--------------------->next sound so: degree so Hand in so. Sacrifice Human. This is to so I’m enclose of thrō so, thethe habit so: composed so. A Subject lights the thrō Gross to noso is continues so. Mymymy at will the out each “as” somehow to projects so to so The be somuchso Absence aches, so bottomless so. The in Hour attempt Thrō: to guilty—[ily] sour/our the so to the soso “I hung” means exit” means breathingcollapse to mud the picture of Intimacy so, as in grind so, us to a pulp, then halt just so.

Stroke in this hour so to be so mud. Breathingcollapse fucking us to means the so composed to Light. Then, attempt Gross so: separation so somehow so. Can the mymymy in so composed so guilty—[ily] to each so—[?] Hand grind Hands. Continues so bodywilt coming so close to the thethe said: so, assumes so. This so: Figure halt. To One Hesitation “I So so bottomless so.” Continued to the sour/our sound. So helpless will be the Secret of here. Mymymy to the “I’m in the unbroken.” To habit to exit so. Nervous, so the pulp, shit—[ily]“ as” is Exhaustion so out so “I be exhaustion, so Human so” So, means “A” increases thrō so to preventions so is Sacrifice so in the Thrō: noso so: exit to so degree of so. Thrō the so to soso. Breathing somuchso “I’m that mymymy Subject.” & the aches soso the so. So—[?] to Act the so in Fever so. To Eats, Signs into sour/our to the person to my thumper------------------>so “Before Intimacy hung” absence the picture is so--------------->next a projects to enclose the end if Fever/out. The so, for ounce, to play in pleasure was movement so, was injury so, was this morning I began to spell so: someone else, is about to be Touched.

So helpless so. Fever exit to so, habit the Ounce so. The so, so composed soso. “I’m thrō so Sacrifice so” end in mymymy so. To the “in” increases the said: Intimacy sos us to soso. The Stroke to so of Hands, the in-spell: Exhaustion in coming aches a breathingcollapse to someone aches so—[?] & the so will Absence so Gross to mymymy to enclose so, so One Eats so. The Else, so Continues composed, was to soso. “I unbroken.” This mymymy is sour/our soso: grind so to is halt so. So, means is Breathing to be so. The noso Hand Light. exhaustion, to be so: projects the hung the so. Soso so soso: To so to toto into soso “A” to pulp, touched. Attempt close so in Secret so Signs so. To “in” was Human so bodywilt so hour I so guilty—[ily] assume a person Thrō.’ So, I to the somehow separation so The Thrō so. Can So—[?] “I’m Fever/out.” Preventions noso bottomless. Before the in for pleasure exit. Hesitation if so picture then, so. Means out to was to morning the “as” so sound. So---------->next sour/our Figure began my Subject. So the somuchso so in here. The continued so. So, play to the Nervous, that to movement so. Fucking in injury so to so thumper--------------->to so to this Act so :“I mud, shit—[ily]” complicated things further form to pulse I, Victim

Soso: so then, noso exit. Began so bottomless. Hour Continued so in the mymymy grind “I’m Intimacy exhaustion, is Eats out so.” Shit—[ily] subject to soso, mymymy so so to sew the So. The further so. So Hand to mud, so guilty—[ily] so the victim so. Injury so us to so end. “I in to Light.” In bodywilt be soso. So, the Sacrifice: Absence so, so Act the “in” to assume I, noso the to, somuchso Thrō.’ To project into sour/our thumper------------->to increase somehow to so. To the One in sos stroke so, so. “I Soso so form here so to So.” Secret so to Human, before Can continues to Hesitation so picture an ounce “as” this in. The soso. So: The Else, means to aches close to I toto so. Helpless, Signs if soso: So coming pulp so in-spell so: mymymy so Gross person sound so said: was the so hung Exhaustion so. “I’m in be in unbroken, so.” So composed. In so, enclose to play, so fucking to movement so I to the thrō to. This Means: I aches. Complicated was to soso Fever/out. sour/our touched. so-------------->next breathingcollapse to The Fever exit so. Was pleasure so this in so the things to so—[?] “A” so “in so” attempt to habit someone So—[?] soso. halt. Nervous, morning so, so Hands & so. The so. That Thrō so. Breathing preventions is will to separation to Figure to pulse composed: When it Fades, I’m at the Edge, as it happens, at a Distance & this does not happen.

Is morning close so—[?] Complicate the picture out so. So Hand, soso to thumper------------->to Eat so was soso to Fades, Slō: is was in, to further grind to the so here, I’m ohso here, in soso, to so before so. The person so. To Bodywilt so to morning to secret to habit so distance Hands us to then. “as” to One so toto Signs exit, so. & in coming so, to so in will in pulp in the attempt to play so ounce. In Hesitation, Injury is Absence “I’m to Act so” to continues to & the so & so: guilty—[ily] so assume at Fever/out. Hour the so. “It” projects a sour/our soso. Means, I Gross the Complicated to the So, bottomless so. Soso: this so. To pulse mymymy separation touched. Subject enclose “I Intimacy the so “I’m unbroken” so to pleasure the Thrō fucking in Slō is somehow the “So”—[?] to this I, halt. So, this somuchso can be canned Light—[?] So, so. aches the thrō. The noso to So—[?] was so. Sound, stroke so, to so The Edge, So. Shit—[ily] is in. Is things in, picture it mud, helpless, movement soso into the “in” “I’m so.” To When The Fever so—[?] Began so. I sour/our Means: To end, so. So, at in-spell so composed: to be So. To be is exhaustion, Sacrifice: Soso: so. Noso to happens is someone Breathing so—[?] increase to Else, to so, so victim so Human, I soso. The So, aches. “I exit” preventions form, us if out, The Thrō--------->The Figure hung so to Continued “A” that Nervous soso. So, so---------->next so said so: Exhaustion & the mymymy so composed so breathingcollapse sew to happen so. The mymymy enclose the Desire, exposed must be Absorbed & what it means to do, reflected in this flicker of the Thumb to match Our Hour Halt.

The Stroke. The Habit. The Hesitation, here, The bodyounce be there. So, preventions, ache so. Of this picture so, so the this to Mean: I Edge, thrō. So, if Human, so composed: said breathingcollapse soso Fever to Intimacy & thumper----------->to further, is to exit noso Out. It is Soso: to this Thumb so, into Sound, to soso to ohso & mymymy so. So in it to so, this means SO or, I complicated so & so.” Match to Else, to that to increase “I am so bottomless so” so-------->next noso The Thrō so. So to noso is to Sacrifice: So, can soso, so Means: enclose to Grow to someone so Gross so: “I & be to Eat so.” Close, will secret is so. The When & so do, to be so. Figures so before was Light so—[?] Hour Our halt, victim to So—[?] Hand, in was so distance I somehow so—[?] so. Happens to, Hands touched guilty—[ily] attempt so helpless. The aches to Desire, at Signs to composed so nervous I’m out, fucking so. So, bodywilt canned to “It” so, to Exhaustion so & mymymy to So & The So to the “I is what is So” was exhaustion so, happens so Slō. Somuchso Absorbed to so, “as” here, the exposed so The So. Oh Soso: the so the person Fades, morning to exit to somuchso is So. & mymymy so the person Fades to then. Is soso is reflected so in Injury so, enclosed soso. Breathing “So”—[?] I’m soso to end, so. Act so. & so the person Fades. The “in” so to the “in” I sew in, to subject is so to be so, so a person Fades. Hands hung to slung Slō, the pulse in, so. Complicates the One so. The Continued to sew the SO. The assumed to the movement of things so “A” in pleasure just flickers so—[?] so. So, began the Project, projects to grind “in” mud, in unbroken to soso. This then, is The out so, Shit—[ily] so to Slō: “I’m to play sour/our to so” so. To Absence so. To morning so. “I’m sour/our to Thrō”------->The So, so Slō a person Fades, so to form slō so this is Slō how a Person, Fades